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Hitting cylinder limit with GRUB
From: |
Glenn Becker |
Subject: |
Hitting cylinder limit with GRUB |
Date: |
29 Dec 2002 18:28:32 -0500 |
Hi -
About a year ago I replaced the 2.1G hard drive on a Toshiba 470CDT with
a 30g one, updated the BIOS, then got FreeBSD set up 'next to' Slackware
Linux. It's all been working nicely since then.
Now I'm trying to set up a 'triple-boot' on this same machine, adding
Win98 into the middle - yesterday I read a newish HOWTO on how to do
this using GRUB (Linux+Win9x+Grub-HOWTO on TLDP).
I repartitioned using parterd, and then I installed GRUB (0.93) using
the grub-install command, onto /dev/hda.
Linux boots fine now from GRUB, I have the 'menu.lst' file in the right
place, but GRUB seems unable to deal with anything above the 'cylinder
limit' (it's not specifying but I assume the 1024 cylinder limit). I've
been booting things from above there for over a year using LILO. I tried
re-installing GRUB using grub-install --force-lba. Same result.
Here is the partition table on the machine:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1217 1275 473917+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 1276 2097 6602715 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 * 2098 3648 12458407+ a5 FreeBSD
I've forgotten why the boot flag is set on the last partition,
incidentally.
Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers: I will keep searching the
bug-grub archives.
Best,
Glenn Becker
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